Saturday, December 30, 2006

Harry Potter and the Fiery Magic-Globe

Rowling's 7th book,..err.. it's title has been 'released'. Some 
cause for outbreak of tension among us potter fans eh. 
If you're a regular visitor of her website, you might have noticed 
a new diary entry, claiming she'd had a dream about her being 
Harry, and this particular 'news snippet' has been doing the 
rounds in various fan sites, discussion forums, blogs, news papers 
even. I don't mean to be hypocritical here; being a fan of this 
particular series, I am excited about the final book, but I seem to 
be quite 'behind the times'. I should have been arguing over who's
going to be dying, or who's going to be the mysterious 'R.A.B',
whether Dumbledore is really dead or not, and which side Severus Snape is actually loyal to, or if he's a double agent. Alright I 
sure did wonder about these things but to actually fight over
it, wo bhi in public, well that part goes over my head. And I
sure would consider Saddam Hussein's dreams as more
important and surely more interesting, absolutely zero offence meant :D. Why doesn't she just shut it all, finish the book and 
go to bed? In the least she'll be preventing this recklessly foolish
behaviour of the 'higher-up's in the fan community'. The Potter series is surely a grand piece of fiction, but the 
bigger factor that supplies the books' popularity is the way 
it's been promoted and marketed. One would love to be doing 
what's in than not, and J.K.R. has seen to it that her books become
the order of the day, and how! If you're skeptical,
just enjoy the fantastic tales, just dont jump into the hyped-up bandwagon, it takes lesser energy to form your own ideas 
about the climax than listen to the endless rounds of 
discussions, and surely more fun.